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Inside North Korea and feeling the drums of war

North Korea is a place where nuclear war is imminent but survivable, where there is zero sympathy for American detainees like Otto Warmbier

File photo of Kim Jong-Un
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Nicholas Kristof | NYT Pyongyang
To fly into North Korea on an old Russian aircraft is to step into an alternate universe, one in which “the Supreme Leader” defeats craven American imperialists, in which triplets are taken from parents to be raised by the state, in which nuclear war is imminent but survivable — and in which there is zero sympathy for American detainees like Otto Warmbier.

Warmbier was the University of Virginia student who was arrested for stealing a poster, then sentenced to 15 years of hard labour and eventually returned to the US in a vegetative state.

“He broke the law in our country,” said